Alien Neighbors 寻访外星人 2
From a planet.......let me get out of here....stay where you are....
Humanoid aliens have been good business in the 20th century. B moviemakers in particular have found a winning formula in showing semi-human space creatures with their fanatical urge to conquer earth.
This is bent 1 on conquering the world...Ah..
I don't think it's very likely that the earth has been visited by intelligent aliens. In fact, the whole business of travel from one star system to another, physical travel, I think it's really rather fantastic, it's much easier to send messages and communicate with your friendly aliens next door than physically 2 get in a spacecraft and go and visit.
We don't yet have the know-how 3 to detect them, let alone travel to them if they exist. It’s clear that only a technologically 4 superior race could visit us, in the meantime, we strain to pick up unfamiliar 5 radio signals and scan the heavens for clues. In almost 40 years, there has been only 4 possible messages, all of them false alarms. An alien signal heading for earth could come from any direction. To speed up the search, a SETI program called Project Phoenix 6 has made some choices.
Project Phoenix has a fairly straightforward 7 philosophy. We point our telescope in the direction of nearby sun-like stars, stars that are cousins of our own sun. Those are the ones (who), we think, are most likely to have planets somewhat similar to earth around them and maybe with an, an advanced civilization on one of those planets.
No star in the search is farther away than 150 light years and like our sun, each one is over 3 billion years old, plenty of time for intelligent life to have developed radio technology. The president of the SETI Institute, Frank Drake pioneered the techniques used in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He doesn't rule out the idea that someone is tuned 8 in to us.
The space around Earth is full of radio signals, and particularly television signals, which we have transmitted over roughly the last 50 years. In fact, there is a shell around the earth, 50 light years in radius 9, full of our signals, and in that shell there are about 1,500 stars which are now receiving our signals, and if anyone is there, they are able to find out all about us by watching our television.
Quick, quick, brand in Richard Hudnut whole family...quick, quick.. cut your winding 10 time in half...Hey, cut the effort...your cresol lotion 11 ...quick quick quick and quick
Can SETI transmit powerful radio signals of its own? Hoping for a response? Some people think that Project Phoenix actually broadcasts inquiries 12 into space and we wait for replies from the aliens. Well, we don't do that, and the reason is quite simple. Say, say the nearest extraterrestrial is 100 light years away, well, our question would take 100 years to get there and if they deigned 13 to reply, it will be another 100 years before their answer gets back to us. 200 years have gone by, you've probably lost interest and surely your funding is gone away.
There may well be a communication's technology that we don't know about yet, as we were unaware 14 of radio waves only a century ago. Technology is definitely on the move. After a walk on our own moon, we began exploring new worlds by remote control, using more and more advanced spacecraft, among the most successful missions, was Voyager II.
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humanoid: a machine or creature with the appearance and qualities of a human有人的特点的
know-how: practical knowledge and ability:实际知识, 技术秘诀, 诀窍
straightforward: easy to understand or simple:简单的, 易懂的
rule out: to decide or state that something is impossible or will not happen划去, 排除, 取消
deign to do sth: to do something unwillingly and in a way that shows that you think you are too important to do it:屈尊降贵做某事
- He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
- We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
- He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
- Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
- He hasn't got the know-how to run a farm.他没有经营农场的专业知识。
- I don't have much know-how about engines.发动机方面的技术知识我知之甚少。
- Shanghai is a technologically advanced city. 上海是中国的一个技术先进的城市。
- Many senior managers are technologically illiterate. 许多高级经理都对技术知之甚少。
- I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
- The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。
- The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
- The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
- A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
- I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。
- The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
- The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
- We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。
- A winding lane led down towards the river.一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
- The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation.迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。
- The lotion should be applied sparingly to the skin.这种洗液应均匀地涂在皮肤上。
- She lubricates her hands with a lotion.她用一种洗剂来滑润她的手。
- He was released on bail pending further inquiries. 他获得保释,等候进一步调查。
- I have failed to reach them by postal inquiries. 我未能通过邮政查询与他们取得联系。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》